Background

I've always been rather intrigued with photographs. Photos could alway's take me places that I could never go; and still today they do. Images hold such a powerful force in society today. Without them, could you possibly imagine a newspaper or magazine?

I began to really grow serious about photography my Junior year in high school. I had recieved my first camera for Christmas the year before, but had not really put much energy into it until then. I attended Asbury College in Wilmore, KY  during my first year of college where I served as photo editor of the school paper. Starting in the fall semester of 2008 I  began attending Kent State University where I am part of their photojournalism program. During the summer and while on breaks, I work as a part-time photographer for The Alliance Review, the local newspaper from my hometown of Alliance, Ohio. I really enjoy my time there and have graciously been given the opportunity to practice and advance my photography skills through my work for them.

The photos below and in the blog archive have been taken for various photo classes, The Alliance Review, The Asbury Collegian, and for my own enjoyment. I hope that you like them!

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Let's Play Some Ball...

Theses are the photos from The Asbury College Women's basketball game this past week. They were published in the school newspaper this week as well.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Arlington National Cemetery

This past spring, after visiting Arlington National Cemetery I discovered a photo project from National Geographic photographed by Bruce Dale about the cemetery. These photos were so powerful that the first time I saw them I had tears in my eyes and goosebumps running down my spine. These photos were that good! Anyways, I bought the book and have even brought it with me down here to college. You can look at them online and since I think so highly of them, I wanted to share these beautiful images with you all. Type in this address to see: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0706/feature5/
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Red River Gorge

This past Saturday I went with a few girls on my hall to the Red River Gorge. It's about an hour and a half from Campus. I was in such awe at the beauty of it all. We were only on one particular trail out of many. I was afraid that we would have missed all the beautiful colors of the leaves, but there was still a pretty good amount of color left for us to enjoy. I wasn't all that happy with how my photos turned out, but I did manage to get these three. I hope you all like them!
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Constant Motion

I photographed the Women's basketball game last night. I'm still waiting to see which photos will be in this weeks paper, so until then, I thought I'd post this little creation I messed with for quite a while last night. I had my camera on a continuous shooting mode, so I thought it would be cool to put them all together in one. I'll try to post the published photos once this weeks edition comes out. I'm can't wait to show you all. I was pretty happy with them. Though, I'm trying to find another way to shoot basketball photos. I want something with a little more pop!
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Stretch it...stretch it good!

Glide-Crawford, one of the women's dorms on campus (My dorm in fact!), has a gym in the basement which is in the process of being "remodeled". This is the photo the paper used and it was on the front page!
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